Tycoon Zone

Introduction to Transport and Vehicles

When you are playing Tycoon Online as a new player, you start by purchasing property, hiring employees, and building factories. Eventually you notice the “Transport” link in the menu and you wonder what it is for. After all, your company has done fine so far without you doing anything in the transport link.

From a game perspective, transport is an additional way to build your Company Value. Transport is not required for your company to function, but it is important if you want to be competitive in C-Rank.

Every time a player purchases goods on the market from another player, a transport assignment is generated to transport those goods from the selling player’s city, to the buying player’s city. For the sake of simplicity, the game gives the goods to the buyer immediately, even though the transport assignment may take several hours to complete.

Any player who has a vehicle can carry out this assignment. When the assignment is created, the goods will be loaded into a vehicle already waiting in the queue in that city. Once the vehicle has enough goods in it, it starts transporting those goods to their destination city.

The owner of the vehicle earns a small amount of cash, plus a good amount of Company Value, for each transportation assignment it completes. The amount you earn is based on the number of goods transported, and the distance traveled. Ships are very good vehicles because they can carry a large quantity of goods. Airplanes are also very good, because they can cover a lot of distance quickly. Smaller vehicles are also good, especially early in the round or for players who are still learning how to manage transport.

An employee with a drivers license can operate any vehicle, but a professional Driver will usually get better speed that other types of employees. Vehicles all travel the same route and distance between cities, regardless of what type of vehicle it is. Apparently Virtual Sweden has water shipping channels right alongside all of the highways, even inland!

Don’t forget that vehicles need gasoline, so keep money in your gasoline account so drivers can fill the tanks. And keep an eye on where your vehicles queue up — some cities have much shorter wait times than others!